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    The British Museum is located in London and is dedicated to human history, art, and culture. It has one of the largest collections in the world with over 8 million works. The museum was established in 1753 based on the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and was the first national public museum. It is now a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

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    The British Museum is located in London and is dedicated to human history, art, and culture. It has one of the largest collections in the world with over 8 million works. The museum was established in 1753 based on the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and was the first national public museum. It is now a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

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    The British Museum is located in London and is dedicated to human history, art, and culture. It has one of the largest collections in the world with over 8 million works. The museum was established in 1753 based on the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and was the first national public museum. It is now a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

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    British Museum

    The British Museum, located in the


    Bloomsbury area of London, in the
    United Kingdom, is a public institution
    dedicated to human history, art and
    culture.
    Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, and is among the largest and most comprehensive
    in existence having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire, and documenting the story of
    human culture from its beginnings to the present. It is the first national public museum in the world.
    The British Museum was
    established in 1753, largely
    based on the collections of
    the Irish physician and
    scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It
    first opened to the public
    on 15 January 1759, in
    Montagu House, on the site
    of the current building.
    In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it
    continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the
    museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department
    for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it
    charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.
    Sir Hans Sloane
    Although today principally a museum of cultural art
    objects and antiquities, the British Museum was
    founded as a "universal museum". Its foundations lie in
    the will of the Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans
    Sloane (1660–1753), who was a London-based doctor
    and scientist from Ulster. During the course of his
    lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable collection of
    curiosities and, not wishing to see his collection broken
    up after death, he bequeathed it to King George II,
    for the nation, for a sum of £20,000.

    At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around


    71,000 objects of all kinds including some 40,000
    printed books, 7,000 manuscripts, extensive natural
    history specimens including 337 volumes of dried
    plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht
    Dürer and antiquities from Sudan, Egypt, Greece,
    Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the
    Americas.
    The British Museum
    today

    Today the museum no longer houses


    collections of natural history, and the books
    and manuscripts it once held now form part
    of the independent British Library. The
    museum nevertheless preserves its
    universality in its collections of artefacts
    representing the cultures of the world,
    ancient and modern. The original 1753
    collection has grown to over thirteen million
    objects at the British Museum, 70 million at
    the Natural History Museum and 150 million
    at the British Library.
    The Round Reading Room, which was
    designed by the architect Sydney Smirke,
    opened in 1857. For almost 150 years
    researchers came here to consult the
    museum's vast library. The Reading Room
    closed in 1997 when the national library (the
    British Library) moved to a new building at St
    Pancras. Today it has been transformed into
    the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre.

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